For two days, a team of eight Delhi Police officers scanned footage from 500 CCTV cameras, spoke to at least 100 informers and to residents in central Delhi, and finally found a 70-year-old South Korean tourist who had been reported “missing” by the country’s embassy for over a month.
The woman was found on Thursday morning, seated in a crowded lane near the New Delhi railway station, dressed in a green jacket and beige pants.
A senior Delhi Police officer said, “The woman had planned a solo trip to India in February and left Korea without telling anyone in her family. She was supposed to return home on February 10 but was not allowed to board her flight after ‘violent’ behaviour was reported by airline staffers.”
On Monday, a month after she missed her flight back home, her family – unaware of her whereabouts – reached out to the embassy in India after they found printouts of her travel plans to India at her house, said the police officer, who asked not to be named.
The CCTV trail revealed that after not being allowed to travel back home, the elderly woman went towards the skywalk near New Delhi Railway Station.
Another police officer, who was a part of the team that found her, said: “We followed the CCTV trail from Delhi Aerocity, Dhaula Kuan, to Shivaji Stadium and New Delhi. We came to know that she was seen leaving the airport on February 10. She then took the Metro and reached the skywalk near Ajmeri Gate. She spent the night sleeping under the skywalk. The next day, she went to the New Delhi Railway Station and then to Metro stations nearby.”
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